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Quote
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Eureka
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Answer
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Ancient Era
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
– Plutarch
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None
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Pottery
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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
– Winston S. Churchill
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None
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Animal Husbandry
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"When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."
– Will Rogers
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None
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Mining
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"It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."
– Sir Francis Drake
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Found a city on the coast
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Sailing
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"I don't believe in _______; I'm a Sagittarius and we're sceptical."
– Arthur C. Clarke
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Find a Natural Wonder
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Astrology
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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."
– W. H. Auden
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Farm a resource
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Irrigation
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"_____ is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words."
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Meet another civilization
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Writing
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"I shot an arrow into the air. It fell to earth, I knew not where."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kill a unit with a Slinger
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Archery
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"Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves."
– Adrienne Clarkson
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Build a Quarry
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Masonry
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"I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy … because _____ will last for thousands of years."
– Richard MacDonald
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Kill 3 Barbarians
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Bronze Working
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"Don't reinvent the ____, just realign it."
– Anthony D'Angelo
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Mine a resource
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Wheel
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Classical Era
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"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
– John Masefield
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Improve 2 Sea Resources
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Celestial Navigation
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"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."
– Helen Gurley Brown
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Make a Trade Route
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Currency
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"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
– Winston Churchill
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Build a Pasture
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Horseback Riding
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"The Lord made us all out of ____. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel."
– Marie Osmond
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Build an Iron Mine
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Iron Working
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"There is nothing but a plank between a sailor and eternity."
– Thomas Gibbons
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Own 2 Galleys
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Shipbuilding
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"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with ________."
– Galileo Galilei
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Build 3 Specialty Districts
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Mathematics
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"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
– Dave Barry
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Build a Water Mill
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Construction
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"Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. ______ believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet."
– Scott Adams
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Build Ancient Walls
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Engineering
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Medieval Era
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"Strategy requires thought; _____ require observation."
– Max Euwe
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Kill a unit with a Spearman
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Military Tactics
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"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out."
– Revelation 3:12
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Build a Classical Era or later Wonder
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Buttress
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"We are all ________ in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
– Ernest Hemingway
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Build 3 Mines
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Apprenticeship
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Few inventions have been so simple as the ______, but few have had so catalytic an influence on history."
– Lynn White Jr.
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Have the Feudalism civic
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Stirrups
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"I'd imagine the whole world as one big ______. ________ never come with any spare parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need."
– Hugo Cabret
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Own 3 Archers
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Machinery
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"The purpose of _______ is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
– Malcolm Forbes
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Earn a Great Scientist
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Education
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"Blast - Build - Battle"
– Motto of the U.S. 16th ______ Brigade
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Build an Aqueduct
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Military Engineering
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"Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my _____."
– Nemo Nox
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Have a government with 6 policy slots
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Castles
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Renaissance Era
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"Not all who wander are lost."
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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Build 2 Harbors
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Cartography
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"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."
– Henry Ford
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Build a Lumber Mill
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Mass Production
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"If you owe the ____ $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the _____'s problem."
– J. Paul Getty
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Have the Guilds civic
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Banking
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The real use of ________ is to make all men tall."
– Thomas Carlyle
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Build an Armory
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Gunpowder
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"The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the ______ press is heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything."
– Terry Pratchett
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Build 2 Universities
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Printing
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"It's not the towering sails, but the unseen wind that moves a ship."
– English Proverb
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Kill a unit with a Musketman
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Square Rigging
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"________ compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
– Plato
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Build a University next to a Mountain
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Astronomy
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"Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer."
– Rick Riordan
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Own 2 Crossbowmen
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Metal Casting
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"The lowest is to attack a city. ____ of a city is only done as a last resort."
– Sun Tzu
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Own 2 Trebuchets
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Siege Tactics
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Industrial Era
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The key words of violent economics are urbanisation, ___________, centralisation, efficiency, quantity, speed."
– E.F. Schumacher
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Build 3 Workshops
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Industrialisation
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"If facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
– Albert Einstein
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Have The Enlightenment civic
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Scientific Theory
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"Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ______ yet?"
– Adam Savage
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Have 2 Forts in your territory
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Ballistics
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"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
– Winston Churchill
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Kill a unit with a Knight
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Military Science
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"It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the _____ _____."
– Winston Churchill
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Build 2 Shipyards
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Steam Power
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"No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the ______ revolution triggered by the invention of the toilet."
– Sylvia Burwell
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Build 2 Neighbourhoods
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Sanitation
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"You and I come by road or rail, but ______ travel on infrastructure."
– Margaret Thatcher
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Build 2 Banks
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Economics
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"Bolt actions speak louder than words."
– Craig Roberts
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Build a Niter Mine
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Rifling
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Modern Era
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"For once you have tasted ____ you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Build an Industrial era or later wonder
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Flight
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"Many of us take better care of our automobiles than we do of our own bodies … yet the auto has _______ _____."
– B.J. Palmer
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Own 3 Line Infantries
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Replaceable Parts
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"There are three things extremely hard: ____, a diamond, and to know one's self."
– Benjamin Franklin
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Build a Coal Mine and an Ironclad
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Steel
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"Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man."
– Thomas Tredgold
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Build 1 Coal Power Plant
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Refining
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"If it weren't for ______, we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
– George Gobel
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Own 3 Privateers
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Electricity
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"A world without ____ is a deaf world."
– Ernest Yeboah
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Build a National Park
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Radio
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"________ is the dirty part of physics."
– Peter Reiss
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Have a level two Alliance.
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Chemistry
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas _______ engine."
– Dana Brunetti
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Extract an Artifact
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Combustion
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Atomic Era
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If God had really intended men to fly, He'd make it easier to get to the airport."
– George Winters
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Build 2 Biplanes
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Advanced Flight
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"_____ science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty."
– John Carmack
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Boost through Great Scientist or Spy
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Rocketry
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
– W. Clement Stone
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Build 2 Power Plants
Build 1 Oil Power Plant
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Advanced Ballistics
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"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."
– George S. Patton
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Have 3 Armies or Armadas
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Combined Arms
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"Nothing on this earth lasts forever. Except maybe _____."
– Patricia Dunn
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Build an Oil Well
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Plastics
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"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a ________."
– Paul R. Ehrlich
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Adopt a government with 8 inherent policy slots
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Computers
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"Leave the atom alone."
– E.Y. Harburg
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Boost through Great Scientist or Spy
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Nuclear Fission
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"There may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement."
– Joe Hill
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Build 2 Aerodromes
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Synthetic Materials
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Information Era
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
– George Bernard Shaw
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Boost through Great Scientist or Spy
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Telecommunications
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"Right now there are thirty-one ______s zipping around the world with nothing better to do than help you find your way to the grocery store."
– Ed Burnette
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Build 2 Broadcast Centers
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Satellites
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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you were heading."
– Lao Tzu
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Kill a Fighter
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Guidance Systems
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When God said, ‘Let there be light,’ he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light."
– Charles Townes
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Build 2 Drones
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Lasers
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"All material things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid particles... variously associated with the first Creation by the counsel of an Intelligent Agent."
– Isaac Newton
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Own 3 Tanks
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Composites
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"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth."
– Patti Smith
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Boost through Great Scientist or Spy
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Stealth Technology
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"I'll be back."
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Have the Globalization civic
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Robotics
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"I am a big proponent of harnessing the power of _____- from 93 million miles away. _____ is done by our sun really, really well and for free. Here on Earth in reactors, not so much."
– Joe Romm
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Boost through Great Scientist or Spy
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Nuclear Fusion
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"If technology is the engine of change, then ____________ is the fuel for humanity's future."
– Natasha Vita-More
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Build an Aluminum Mine
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Nanotechnology
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Future Era
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"Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?"
– Mary Shelley
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N/A
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Advanced AI
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"The incomplete becomes complete; the crooked becomes straight; the empty becomes full; the worn out becomes new."
– Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
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Advanced Power Cells
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"If there is any work in the afterlife, you must do it. Behold me whenever you are called. Be watchful at any moment to work there. Plough my fields, carry water and sand to the east and west. Behold me whenever you are called."
– Inscription on an Egyptian Ushabti
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Cybernetics
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"After eleven Days Passage in this violent Flight, I perceived we began to approach another Earth (if I may so call it) being the Globe or very Body of that Star which we call the Moon."
– Francis Godwin
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Offworld Mission
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"If the enemy know not where he will be attacked, he must prepare in every quarter, and so be everywhere weak."
– Sun Tzu
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Predictive Systems
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"I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;"
– John Masefield
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Seasteads
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"It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and it again descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior."
– Hermes Trismegistus
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Smart Materials
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"Even though the _____ seems far away, it is actually beginning right now."
– Mattie Stepanek
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Future Tech
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